Chemistry Expert - Remote Part-Time Position

What You'll Do5

• Write original synthesis or characterization problems from your own lab work, including substrate, conditions, analytical data, and the reference answer used to grade a model.
• Review model-proposed synthetic routes and mechanisms for sensible disconnections, supported selectivity claims, and spectra that match assigned structures.
• Identify proposals that look plausible on paper but would fail at the bench due to side reactivity, workup losses, or reagent incompatibility.
• Explain your reasoning in clear written form so model outputs can be scored against your standards.
• Flag ambiguous instructions or missing context before completing an evaluation.

Requirements5

• Graduate degree in chemistry or a related field.
• Laboratory or computational research experience.
• Clear written communication, since most work involves explaining your reasoning.
• Comfort with ambiguous tasks and willingness to flag unclear instructions.
• Recent enough experience running reactions and interpreting data to explain the calls you made.

Who Should Apply

The best fit is a chemist with a graduate degree and recent bench or computational research experience, someone who can explain why a route, selectivity call, or spectral assignment holds up. You should be comfortable writing detailed rationales and working from incomplete prompts. The pool suits candidates who want project-based part-time work, not those seeking a fixed schedule or guaranteed full-time hours. Applications often score low when they list coursework without describing reactions they ran or data they interpreted themselves. Another common miss is a vague written answer that does not show the chemistry judgment behind a decision.

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